Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

by Daniel Aristi

In the movie, the scientists wish

They’d be in uniform, and the US Marines actually

Dream of kissing the eggheads, but no one says nothing.

Always,

There’s a nuclear device with blood red numbers that

They all fathered in a Manhattan orgy—and R-Mann would say

‘It’s queer’.

Now in the movie there’s only one sweet & sour sergeant Jim left

And a physicist, his glasses cracked, as we approach the finale. And the bomb codes

Are punched, and punched, and punched again like

A good fuck.

They make for a handsome couple.

But they won’t be kissing.